Lieke Melsen

3.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
63 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Lieke Melsen is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Lieke Melsen has authored 63 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 39 papers in Water Science and Technology and 10 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Lieke Melsen's work include Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (38 papers), Flood Risk Assessment and Management (29 papers) and Hydrology and Drought Analysis (24 papers). Lieke Melsen is often cited by papers focused on Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (38 papers), Flood Risk Assessment and Management (29 papers) and Hydrology and Drought Analysis (24 papers). Lieke Melsen collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United States and United Kingdom. Lieke Melsen's co-authors include Adriaan J. Teuling, Nans Addor, Martyn Clark, R. Uijlenhoet, P.J.J.F. Torfs, Naoki Mizukami, Pieter van Oel, David W. Walker, Björn Guse and Andrew J. Newman and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and Water Resources Research.

In The Last Decade

Lieke Melsen

61 papers receiving 1.6k citations

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Towards normalizing good practice across the whole modeling cycle: its instrumentation and future research topics

2024 62 citations Anthony J. Jakeman, Sondoss Elsawah et al. Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lieke Melsen Netherlands	22	1.2k	933	356	330	146	63	1.6k
Eduardo Sávio Passos Rodrigues Martins Brazil	20	1.3k 1.1×	756 0.8×	210 0.6×	362 1.1×	183 1.3×	100	1.9k
Manuela I. Brunner Switzerland	25	1.4k 1.2×	1.1k 1.2×	262 0.7×	392 1.2×	112 0.8×	73	1.8k
Lampros Vasiliades Greece	21	1.6k 1.3×	1.1k 1.1×	298 0.8×	320 1.0×	186 1.3×	49	1.9k
María Manuela Portela Portugal	20	1.2k 1.0×	648 0.7×	194 0.5×	248 0.8×	99 0.7×	93	1.5k
Takahiro Sayama Japan	24	1.5k 1.3×	1.2k 1.3×	396 1.1×	597 1.8×	81 0.6×	126	2.0k
Valentin Aich Germany	17	939 0.8×	716 0.8×	141 0.4×	256 0.8×	95 0.7×	27	1.4k
James H. Stagge United States	16	1.9k 1.7×	758 0.8×	345 1.0×	443 1.3×	85 0.6×	50	2.4k
Stefan Liersch Germany	27	1.0k 0.9×	1.2k 1.3×	220 0.6×	196 0.6×	319 2.2×	56	1.9k
Ali Nazemi Canada	17	924 0.8×	832 0.9×	255 0.7×	240 0.7×	390 2.7×	38	1.6k
Dewi Kirono Australia	23	1.3k 1.1×	718 0.8×	182 0.5×	356 1.1×	104 0.7×	47	1.7k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Melsen, Lieke, et al.. (2025). The synchronization of hydrotemporalities in fishing territories: Debating time and history in the Llanito swamp, Magdalena River (Colombia). Geoforum. 165. 104381–104381. 1 indexed citations

Melsen, Lieke, et al.. (2025). Mind the gap: misalignment between drought monitoring and community realities. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 25(2). 893–912. 1 indexed citations

Melsen, Lieke, et al.. (2025). Manufacturing ignorance or dealing with complexity? Adaptation politics and the making of river futures in Colombia. Futures. 173. 103664–103664. 1 indexed citations

Frings, Roy M., E. Mosselman, Jeremy G. Venditti, et al.. (2025). Extreme river flood exposes latent erosion risk. Nature. 644(8076). 391–397. 2 indexed citations

Bos-Burgering, Liduin, Miriam Coenders‐Gerrits, Ruud P. Bartholomeus, et al.. (2025). The role of decision support tools in drought management: Insights from the Netherlands. Environmental Science & Policy. 168. 104065–104065.

Jakeman, Anthony J., Sondoss Elsawah, Hsiao‐Hsuan Wang, et al.. (2024). Towards normalizing good practice across the whole modeling cycle: its instrumentation and future research topics. Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling. 6. 18755–18755. 62 indexed citations breakdown →

Brêda, João Paulo Lyra Fialho, Lieke Melsen, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis, et al.. (2024). Predictor Importance for Hydrological Fluxes of Global Hydrological and Land Surface Models. Water Resources Research. 60(9). 2 indexed citations

Walker, David W., Germano Ribeiro Neto, Lieke Melsen, et al.. (2024). It's not all about drought: What “drought impacts” monitoring can reveal. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 103. 104338–104338. 13 indexed citations

Teuling, Adriaan J., et al.. (2024). A modeller’s fingerprint on hydrodynamic decision support modelling. Environmental Modelling & Software. 181. 106167–106167. 3 indexed citations

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Teuling, Adriaan J., et al.. (2024). Power to the programmer: Modeller’s perspective on automating the setup of hydrodynamic models for Dutch water authorities. Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling. 6. 18657–18657. 1 indexed citations

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Souza, Daniele Tubino Pante de, Lena Hommes, A.E.J. Wals, et al.. (2024). River co-learning arenas: principles and practices for transdisciplinary knowledge co-creation and multi-scalar (inter)action. Local Environment. 30(1). 58–80. 8 indexed citations

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Neto, Germano Ribeiro, Lieke Melsen, David W. Walker, et al.. (2023). HESS Opinions: Drought impacts as failed prospects. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 27(22). 4217–4225. 6 indexed citations

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Melsen, Lieke, et al.. (2023). A Pareto‐Based Sensitivity Analysis and Multiobjective Calibration Approach for Integrating Streamflow and Evaporation Data. Water Resources Research. 59(6). 9 indexed citations

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Bittner, Daniel, et al.. (2023). Revealing the positive influence of young water fractions derived from stable isotopes on the robustness of karst water resources predictions. Journal of Hydrology. 621. 129549–129549. 8 indexed citations

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Walker, David W., Germano Ribeiro Neto, Art Dewulf, et al.. (2022). Drought Diagnosis: What the Medical Sciences Can Teach Us. Earth s Future. 10(4). 16 indexed citations

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Brunner, Manuela I., Lieke Melsen, Andrew W. Wood, et al.. (2021). Flood spatial coherence, triggers, and performance in hydrological simulations: large-sample evaluation of four streamflow-calibrated models. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 25(1). 105–119. 27 indexed citations

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Brunner, Manuela I., Lieke Melsen, Andrew J. Newman, Andrew W. Wood, & Martyn Clark. (2020). Future streamflow regime changes in the United States: assessment using functional classification. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 24(8). 3951–3966. 70 indexed citations

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Roebroek, Caspar T. J., Lieke Melsen, Anne J. Hoek van Dijke, Ying Fan, & Adriaan J. Teuling. (2020). Global distribution of hydrologic controls on forest growth. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 24(9). 4625–4639. 40 indexed citations

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Brunner, Manuela I., Lieke Melsen, Andrew W. Wood, et al.. (2020). Flood hazard and change impact assessments may profit from rethinking model calibration strategies. 6 indexed citations

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Stahl, Kerstin, Irene Kohn, Veit Blauhut, et al.. (2016). Impacts of European drought events: insights from an international database of text-based reports. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 16(3). 801–819. 209 indexed citations

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